Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-03-25
OLYMPIA. WILMINGTON TER.
OIL mia, FRIDAY EVENING, MR. p. 1881.
Revival of a Useful Organization.

Revival of a Useful Organization.
Articles of incorporation have been
prepared for an organization to be
known as the Thurston County Agri-
cultural Association, to revive the
work and subserve the object SO well
maintained for several years by the
Washington Industrial Association.
The movement is begun by parties
who have permanent interest in ag-
ricultural and mechanical progress,
and of sufficient means, time and in
clination to made it success, provid-
ed the people heartily endorse the
movement and do their whole duty.
1t is well now, at the inception of the
project, to state that acquicscence is
not all that is required at the present
time to inaugurate any enterprise for
the public good. There must be har-
monious, determined and united &C
ton. Everybody must lend his aid
in setting the machinery in motion
and in producing some article Of merit
that will serve to make the annual ex-
hibit, the grand object of the organiza-
ton, success.
1t is unnecessary to summarize the
benefits resulting from such co-opera-
ton for developing and making known
our latent resources. They are too
obvious, and meet with too general a
recognition, to waste time and space
in a statement of logical sequences
from cause to effect. Suffice it to say
that, every branch of mechanical gen.
Jus will receive a stimulus, every acre
of ground be cultivated with more care
and direct interest in superior re-
suits, by the existence of live asso-
citation in our midst, managed by our
most intelligent and appreciative citi-
zens.
The first fair of the Western Wash
ington Industrial Association, held in
1871, in Columbia hall, with but a
meagre exhibit of live stock, was new
ertheless all effort that was attended
by immediate beneficial results. The
display of cereals, fruit and vegetables,
surprised even our own people, and at
the close of the fair, which had result
ed as we'll in gratifying pecuniary
success, large proportion of the en-
hibit Of natural products was shipped
to Jay Cooke & Co., New York, the
financial agents of the then fervently-
prayed-for Northern Pacific Railroad,
and when displayed in their office, had
no small effect in relaxing the purse
strings of capitalists who had hitherto
regarded the northwest coast as an I'M
productive wilderness. This far
reaching result was never contemplate
ed by the originators of the project for
the formation of the association, but
was made possible by spirit of emu
lation and generous rivalry melted by
organization.
Mr.. Barnes, the present owner of the
Fair Grounds, we understand, offers
the free use of track and buildings, the
present year, under the simple condi-
ton that water-mains be laid to the
same. The track, with little labor,
can be made the best in the Territory
and the buildings are ample and well
arranged for the exhibit of stock. II
has been suggested that as means OF
reconciling some apparently unsur.
mountable objections to the association
of the race track with the art gallery
of Short Horns and Jerseys with EN-.
broidery and crazy quilts, that the dis.
play of the products of the field, the
boudoir and the shop, be made in the
city, say at Columbia hall. This will
enable many people to purchase sea
son tickets for themselves and theil
families, who, if they were compelled
to hire conveyance to the Fail
Grounds would probably 60 but once
and return with very vague and un
satisfactory impression of the many
meritOrious features of the exhibit thai
will doubtless appear.
1t may seem rather early to make
this suggestion, which is simply one o
detail, but We do SO now, under the be
lief that it was for the want of JUS
this line of demarkation between tn,
race track and the exhibition hall tina
the former organization languished
and finally died. Certain it is, that al
long as the exhibit was maintained ir
town, it was patronized literally, and
was classified as a financial success
but when visitors were compelled t.
pay so cents for conveyance to ant
from two-bit show, an energeti,
"kick" demonstrated the impolicy o
the change.
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